2013 was a year of tech comebacks -- from Netflix to Nokia -- but not all turnaround attempts fared so well. Myspace, anyone? As we look back on the past year, certain "winners" clearly conquered the industry. Others fell dramatically short. From the...

Fab made headlines earlier this month when it announced layoffs for 101 employees worldwide, or nearly a fifth of its staff, but now the online design store is trying to lend those employees a helping hand. The startup held a job fair in New York on ...

Online design store Fab announced Tuesday that it plans to lay off more than 100 employees in its Berlin office -- about 14% of its total staff -- by the end of the year. News of the layoffs is surprising given that Fab is currently flush with cash, ...

Fab, a two-year-old online store for design goods, is laying the groundwork for further global expansion. The startup announced Tuesday that it has raised $150 million in a partial series D round from investors including Tencent, Atomico, Andreessen ...

"Pivot" is often viewed as a dirty word in the startup world, with the assumption being that the founders failed in some way. But sometimes failing -- or at least acknowledging you're on the wrong course -- is the best path toward success. While foun...

Fab is continuing to evolve from a flash sales site into something bigger -- as its founders hope, the world's largest store for design. The startup, which pivoted from a flash sales site aimed at gay men two years ago, held a presentation in New Yor...

Ready to take your career to the next level? If so, you’re in the right place -- our Dream Job series explores what recruiters at awesome startups are looking for in candidates. Check out previous stories to learn how to score a gig at Birchbox or Kl...

Fab has quickly emerged as a significant force in the e-commerce space. The design-focused shopping site now has more than 10 million members, up from 7.5 million in September, according to data released Sunday by the company as part of a huge 104-sl...

In the months and weeks leading up to Facebook's IPO, investors and analysts questioned the strength of Facebook's ad-based business model -- in particular, how the company would continue to grow ad revenues as its users spent more time accessing the...

Jason Goldberg has already remade his company Fab.com once -- turning it from a social network for gay men into the design-focused deal site we know today. Now, Goldberg, Fab's founder and CEO, is in the process of remaking Fab again, this time as a ...

Jason Goldberg is an accomplished entrepreneur, executive, and investor with a passion for designing digital product experiences, including Fab. Jason is a product guy. He loves to blog, loves transparency, and loves trying to make people smile. A ve...

In the Day in the Life Series, Mashable hand-picked seven successful tech entrepreneurs to follow for a day. We wanted to know what their routine is like, what they eat for lunch, how much time they spend in meetings, who they seek out for advice and...

Fab gives a guy the magic touch in the first TV ad from the social shopping site. The 60-second spot, from Arnold Worldwide, shows a guy who is able to transform all the items in his apartment from drab to fab to impress a date. As The New York Times...

When a successful young ecommerce site is all about design, one might expect the founder to have a very designed, structured life. In some ways, that's true for Jason Goldberg, co-founder and CEO of design darling Fab. Goldberg begins every day with ...

Design-focused, socially charged ecommerce site Fab announced Wednesday that it has closed a $105 million Series C financing round. Fab famously pivoted from a gay social network into an ecommerce site with millions of members and doing thousands of ...

Ecommerce website Fab.com is celebrating its first anniversary by launching Fab UK on Tuesday. As a part of its British expansion, Fab is acquiring what was a UK competitor, online home goods hub Llustre.com. Launched in April 2012, Llustre.com simil...

Fab has become the darling of the Interwebs. What started as a gay social network has pivoted into a design-focused, socially charged ecommerce site that sells everything from rugs to wine glasses to decorative tchotchkes. Fab has seen 4.75 million c...

Ecommerce shop Fab.com is an industry game changer, deeply integrating social media into its unique way of selling tech gadgets, tailored dresses, innovative kitchenware and extraordinary home decor. Fab.com rolled out a website redesign, called Fab ...

Mobile is becoming an increasingly significant sales channel for many online retailers, particularly for those who sell merchandise through flash sales. Mobile sales recently accounted for more than 50% of a day's sales on Rue La La, a 6 million-memb...

Madonna's web-only promotional push for her 12th studio album, MDNA, isn't confined only to the social media big guns Facebook and Twitter. The pop megastar's first album since 2008 came out Monday, and she's turned to design-focused daily deals site...

With about 500,000 apps in the Apple App Store and an estimated 300,000 apps in the Android Market, finding the gems among the virtual haystack can be a full-time job. The good news is it's our full time job. We've trekked through the overly frivolou...

Hot on the heels of rapidly growing membership base and a growing number of transactions, Fab.com has just closed a $40 million Series B funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz. It was just six months ago that Fab.com pivoted from a social network ...

Fab.com's creators have just taken the wraps off a new portal for daily deals -- up to 70% off retail in some cases -- for those who crave beautiful, well-designed things. Visitors can see current flash sales, and they can also get an idea of upcomin...

Fab.com has succumbed to the ultimate startup buzzword: the pivot. What launched as Fabulis.com, the feature-packed, socially savvy site for gay men has become Fab.com, the site that gives users daily design inspirations and sales up to 70% off retai...

In a move that shows group-buying is maturing into lifestyle niches, Fab.com today launched its "Big Gay Deal of the Day," daily deals targeted to gay men. The site, which bills itself as the "definitive resource for gay men," launched its first deal...

Gay social network Fabulis is getting a quarter of a million dollars toward its seed round from David Bohnett, who founded GeoCities at the tender age of 16. This brings the network's total seed money to $825,000, VentureBeat reports. Bohnett's ventu...

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